Use of English · Partie 1

Multiple ChoiceExercice 59 sur 75

The Quiet Prestige of Understatement

British public life has long maintained an uneasy (0) TRUCE with the rhetorical virtue of understatement. To describe a catastrophe as "a spot of bother", or a brilliant performance as "not bad at all", is to (1) .......... a code whose conventions are easily mistaken for insincerity by those unfamiliar with them.…

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